Contracting Assistance

As a public or private contracting authority, in France or worldwide, are you looking to initiate or implement a major organisation or investment operation? Do you need assistance that will guide you at every step of the project, or help you manage the resulting change?

OiEau combines technical, administrative and legal expertise in various sectors – water, sanitation, waste, environmental developments and circular economy principles – to support you in safely and securely preparing for, launching and monitoring your project or strategic action plan.

Contracting assistance is traditionally understood as a service provided to help contracting authorities prepare to tender for consulting and engineering services, as well as for some works contracts. First, it involves identifying the contracting authority’s precise requirements, based on existing data or more targeted audits, but always working closely with the authority. Next, it involves helping the contracting authority to write the tender documentation for public or private contracts, reviewing bids, then assisting with the monitoring and oversight of service providers. Procedures are selected and contracts are drafted in a way that ensures efficiency, technical relevance and legal certainty. For these conventional contracting assistance assignments, OiEau’s status as an independent body guarantees total objectivity and genuine commitment, whether you are a local authority, an industrial company or another type of organisation.

Beyond the conventional definition of contracting assistance, OiEau can also provide broader and more strategic support, to guide sector stakeholders towards improving their organisation, methods and fulfilment of their assignments and mandates. For instance, we offer change management support to local authorities with new areas of responsibility, to industrial companies looking to transition to more eco-friendly practices and safeguard their production, and to institutional stakeholders and states implementing new sector governance methods and resource management approaches in light of climate change.

In practical terms, this assistance involves actions such as developing team skills, designing and monitoring programmes of action, and facilitating collaboration between stakeholders and users, at different spatial and temporal scales, with support from various funding providers.